Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-09-16

Dr. BOrcnelnl, puyslclan Oh exclusive
practice in Atlanta. Ca, committed sui
eide Sunday. He made a similar attempt
before in New York. The cocoaine hab-
it is supposed to be the cause.
Mrs. Sarah J. Overton has been con-
victed of the murder of her husband and
sentenced to % years in prison at Broken
Bow, Neb. Her little daughter testified
that she saw her mother fire the fatal
shot.
A druggist named Vandermain of Pella,
Ia, has been convicted of poisoning his
wife. She died not long ago under sus-
picious circumstances, and on exhuming
the body traces of poisoning were discov-
cred.
A dispatch from Halifax says the re-
ports about the American fishermen max
ing small catches on account of the alert
ness of the cruisers are not correct as up
to date they have landed more fish than
last year.
The grand jury at Augusta, Me-, which
arose Tuesday. reported 101 indictments
for liquor selling, of which 81 were in
Watervile. This is said to be the largest
number of indictments ever reported by
kennebec jury.
Fishing vessels arriving at Halifax
from the Grand Banks suffered terribly
III the great storm of the Sd inst. All
the vessels had their decks swept, and
/ a.. 4 l.
sails and other gear.
Col. L. J. Jones of Montgomery, Ala,
commanding the I'd Alabama regiment,
has sent to the governor of Connecticut
the battle-fag of the 18th Connecticut
regiment taken at Plymouth, n. c., in
1864. The flag was mislaid after the
war and only lately discovered
The weather in the South was very
warm early in the week, the thermometer
recording almost hundred in several To-
caiities. Monday Little Rock reported
9s :; Memphis, Mobile and Vicksburg.
90 ;; Galveston and New Orleans. 81 :.
In Boston 500 was the highest point
reached.
An east-bound passenger and a west
bound freight train on the New York,
Pennsylvania and Ohio road, under full
Roadway, collided Is miles east of Urba-
ma. O., Monday morning. Engineer
Craig of the passenger train was killed
and Engineer Kelly of the freight was
horribly mangled.
Charles p. Ide, bool-keeper of the First
national bank at Glens Falls. y. i. has
confessed to the ENLIGHTENMENT of 100
in the years 1850, 1881 and 1882. He had
covered up his tracks for seven years.
He was an officer of a Baptist Sunday
day school and generally respected. No
arrest has been made.
Mrs. Henry Sell of Grove Point, H..
was shot and instantly killed Sunday
afternoon while riding in a buggy to a
funeral at Mortified in that State. She
was struck by a stray bullet fired by
Frank Rinkerberger, one of party OF
Chicago picknickers who were shooting
at mark. The whole party, including
One desperate was killed and two of
his companions wounded in fight with
shertf's posse at Mauchuca, Tex, Satur-
day The band of desperadoes are sur
rounded, and it is thought that all will
be killed or captured. They number II,
and are supposed to have committed the
Mcneil and Flatonia train robberes.
One deputy sheriff was badly wounded.
The legality of the boycott is to be
tested at Washington. Nine members of
a local Knights of Labor musical assembly
were arrested Saturday on a warrant
sworn out by Frank Kranz. The affida-
Wit accompanying the warrant sets out
that the men arrested conspired to eX-
tort from Kranz, who was leader of
band, the sum of S75 on account of fines,
and to prevent by threats number of
musicians whom he employed from pur-
suing their calling and to boycott them.